Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made some sort of crack like why should they pay out money for that? Well, I don't want their money. . . . My decision is final, and I want out." He could get along without the money he got from the twelve Scripps-Howard papers which took his column: 97 other U.S. papers print his stuff...
...Good to Lose. The Pittsburgh Press last week said it would give Stokes his wish, but the New York World-Telegram's answer was to renew its contract for the column. And Editor John O'Rourke of the Washington Daily News wrote Stokes that his column was too "valuable to the News" to be dropped...
...Stokes had raised a basic issue, and come up against another one. Thousands of people were obviously interested in what well-advertised columnists like Tom Stokes had to say. It is the editor's job to decide what his paper shall print. But an editor who bought the column but didn't print it, while keeping it from rival editors, was in effect paying Stokes and refusing to let him be heard...
...Morning Catch. For 16 years, in his daily column, Courts Day by Day, quiet Jimmy (James A.) Jones has been looking at London's criminal small fry with just such romantic compassion. Last week his large, loyal following could get Courts Day by Day in book form, an anthology of what many newsmen think is the best reporting of its kind. It is the best-read feature in the otherwise undistinguished London Evening News, which has the world's largest evening newspaper circulation. Other London papers have tried to ape his column, but usually give up for lack...
...front-page yearnings, plugs only one beat: the London police courts with their unvarying morning catch of drunks, prostitutes, petty thieves and disturbers of the public peace. Magistrates and constables are often surprised to find vicious repeaters showing up as misguided, well-meaning little folk, but they read his column devotedly. He frequently gives judges, lawyers, police and wrongdoers the same indiscriminate, kindly treatment in mellow pieces that read like lesser Dickens with a shot of O. Henry. (Jones is tired of being compared to Dickens, insists that he has read only the Pickwick Papers, and that...